different between amorous vs lecher

English

Alternative forms

• amourous

Etymology

From Middle English amorous, amerous (14th century), from Old French amoros, amoreus, from Medieval Latin am?r?sus, from Latin amor (“love”), related to am?re (“to love”). Compare French amoureux (“in love”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.m??s/, /?æ.m?.??s/

Adjective

amorous (comparative more amorous, superlative most amorous)

1. Inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.

   • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

   Synonyms: loving, fond, affectionate

2. Indicating love or sexual desire.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 218):

     There was no tune to it, only amorous gruntings like those of some old satyr who had furnished music for Circe's revels.

3. Of or relating to, or produced by, love.

4. (dated) Affected with love; in love; enamored.

Synonyms

• concupiscent
• lustful

Derived terms

• amorously

Related terms

• amour

Translations

References

• amorous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• amorous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Alternative forms

• leachour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English lechour, from Old French lecheor (“glutton, sensualist, libertine”) , from Old French lecher, lechier, lekier, lescher (“to lick, live in gluttony or sensuality”), from Old Frankish *lekk?n (“to lick”), from Proto-Germanic *likk?n? (“to lick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley??- (“to lick”). More at lick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?t??(?)/
• Rhymes: -?t??(r)

Noun

lecher (plural lechers)

1. A lecherous person.
   • 2000, Deborah Payne Fisk, The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (page 202)

     The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

Derived terms

• lech
• lecherous
• lechery

Translations

Verb

lecher (third-person singular simple present lechers, present participle lechering, simple past and past participle lechered)

1. To practice lewdness.

Further reading

• lecher in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• lecher in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• lecher at OneLook Dictionary Search